Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine (1861–1937) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and was raised in Illinois. He worked in business in the West before his fiction and verse led him to settle in New York, where he joined the staff of St. Nicholas in 1899.

He published Rhymes by Two Friends (1893, with William Allen White), the fiction The Arkansaw Bear (1898) and The Bread Line (1900), and later became best known as the biographer of Mark Twain.